{"id":6058,"date":"2011-01-15T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T18:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2011-01-15T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T18:46:16","slug":"edge-world-question-center-your-cognitive-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/edge-world-question-center-your-cognitive-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Edge World Question Center: Your Cognitive Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_index.html\"><em>Edge<\/em> World Question Center<\/a> asks: &#8220;What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody&#8217;s Cognitive Toolkit?&#8221;  There&#8217;s quite a collection of contributions, many from scientists but also from writers and an assortment of unclassifiable big thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t carefully perused all of the entries.  As you do, please chime in with any that you think we should all be paying attention to.  At a brief glance, here are some that caught my eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Sapolsky, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_9.html#sapolsky\">The Lure of a Good Story<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Haidt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_5.html#haidt\">Contingent Superorganism<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Danny Hillis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_1.html#hillis\">Possibility Spaces<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kevin Hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_15.html#hand\">The Gibbs Landscape<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ross Anderson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_9.html#andersonr\">Science Versus Theatre<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gerd Gigerenzer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_8.html#gigerenzer\">Risk Literacy<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Amanda Gefter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_9.html#gefter\">Duality<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Joshua Greene, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_13.html#greenej\">Supervenience!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Carl Zimmer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_13.html#zimmer\">Life as a Side Effect<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rob Kurzban, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_4.html#kurzban\">Externalities<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Richard Foreman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_6.html#foreman\">Negative Capability is a Profound Therapy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have a contribution of my own, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/q2011\/q11_2.html#carroll\">The Pointless Universe<\/a>, after <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkexist.com\/quotation\/the_more_the_universe_seems_comprehensible-the\/327172.html\">Steven Weinberg&#8217;s quote<\/a>.  Need to come up with better branding if this idea is really going to take off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s edition of the Edge World Question Center asks: &#8220;What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody&#8217;s Cognitive Toolkit?&#8221; There&#8217;s quite a collection of contributions, many from scientists but also from writers and an assortment of unclassifiable big thinkers. I haven&#8217;t carefully perused all of the entries. As you do, please chime in with any that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-society","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}